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the possibility of applying for a Dutch passport with the mention of Dutch nationality. Unlike the mention of Dutch nationality in the Dutch travel document, the persons involved do not actually have Dutch nationality but are legally stateless. Today only a small number of
Moluccan inhabitants of the Netherlands still have this status, probably less than 1000 persons.
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Moluccans, who were staying in the Netherlands, only received a facility passport. The words: 'Dutch nationality' was crossed out and it was specifically indicated that those involved were treated as Dutch nationals. Due to many problems with traveling abroad, it was decided in 1991 to also offer
72:. most Moluccans in the Netherlands lost Indonesian citizenship and became stateless. In the 1970s, the number of Moluccans in the Netherlands had grown to 30,000 persons. Most of them still believed in an independent Moluccan Republic, and did not wish to obtain Dutch citizenship. After the
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and other violent actions, the Dutch government decided to improve the situation of the
Moluccans. It offered the Moluccans (almost) equal rights to Dutch citizens, without making them Dutch citizens. the Dutch government met the Moluccans in 1976 with a special law (the so-called
56:. It was in the Dutch government's best interest to have the Moluccans return to the Moluccas as quickly as possible. When it turned out that no return was possible in the long term, it took decades for the Moluccans to gain a clear legal position in the Netherlands.
81:) to equate the legal position of Moluccans residing in the Netherlands with Dutch citizens. Moluccans who fall under this law have no right to participate in elections, national and European. The third generation of Moluccans should get Dutch nationality by law.
52:. Together with their families, they were housed in residential locations throughout the Netherlands. In total around 12,500 people. The KNIL was abolished in 1950 and the soldiers were demobilized shortly after arrival in the
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210:2023-11-21
206:(in Dutch)
182:2019-04-26
116:References
36:Background
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